My Playground

I’ve done many posts featuring the Arroyo Seco (Spanish for “dry stream”) nature area less than three miles from my house.  This watershed lies in a canyon with very steep sides. In the summer there is just a trickle of water, and it can be baking hot at the bottom of the canyon. But in our winter rainy season there can be quite an exciting rush of deep water, hence the fence (above) separating people from the flood control channel. This is a wonderful refuge.

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Freeway over the Arroyo Seco has four lanes in each direction

Mammoth footings, tiny human, barely any water

Built in 1913 with seismic retrofit after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.